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Troy Tice
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Translator from the French, medievalist, husband, dad.
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I'll take what good news I can get at this point!

By the way, Bernardo, Ed and I are very interested to hear more about the Engelberg conference. Will there be a write-up or summary available for those who’d like to know more?
I'll take what I can get.
You can still see the page under all the Co-pilot crap?
that “impossible” phenomena might actually exist?
I do sometimes need to be reined in, but I’m grateful that we can discuss these things without automatically assuming physicalism. From your vantage point, as someone well attuned to the scientific world, do you also sense a growing openness to the possibility
By the way, I really appreciate your skeptically open-minded approach. To lay my own metaphysical cards on the table: I’m a dyed-in-the-wool idealist in the vein of David Bentley Hart—an idealist who also happens to think that most so-called paranormal phenomena are real.
Evil piece of shit. I hope he has to answer to the law one day!
Where can we learn more about this conference?
Just kidding! I am really enjoying your book on the polis.
You didn't forget mine, right??
Would have been nice if Kelly had given a television interview.
She'll always be Nina Banks to me.
This one. Oh my. Poor babies.
Hopefully she will some day.
These pictures tear me up. Resist fascism, always.
These are the people who would have staffed the concentration camps.
Perhaps I should have written “into working under materialist assumptions” rather than “into defending only the materialist position,” since those assumptions are often implicit.
For a model of how this can be done, I would particularly recommend the work of Jeffrey J. Kripal, especially his most recent books.
Historians can, IMO, remain open to the possibility that these events actually occurred without compromising methodological rigor. As a medievalist, I know several scholars who take this position.
Thanks for your response. What you see as the book’s weakness, I actually see as its strength. By trying to sidestep metaphysical questions, historians end up straightjacketing themselves into defending only the materialist position—with devastating consequences.